THE MYSTERY STORIES 8th Grade
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The mystery story is a genre of literature typically focused on the investigation of a crime,
where suspense and surprise become important.
The term mystery novel is often used as a synonym for detective novel or crime novel,
that is, a novel or story in which a detective investigates and solves a criminal mystery.
These stories find their emphasis in the case or element of suspense and its logical
solution.
The characteristics of these stories are:
1. It deals with themes of suspense and surprise.
2. The events take place in dense and slow spaces, which will tell us in a meticulous
and detailed way everything that is happening in the story.
3. It contains common characters such as: detectives, police officers, characters that
cause strangeness, murderers, criminals and investigators.
4. They always present a riddle that must be deciphered through clues.
5. The enigma is something secret that has to be discovered and it will be presented
in the form of a puzzle for the detective or the person investigating to discover the
mystery.
6. The outcome always consists of the resolution of the case, this can be a closed or
open ending.
NARRATIVE TIME
Narrative time: It is closely related to the aesthetic aspect of the narrative, that is, how the
events written by the author are found in the text.
Example: “I had a fever. The thermometer had not deceived him. He had lain down on the
bed, listless and sick, as soon as he entered his room.
Story time: These are the actions presented in chronological order, that is, from beginning
to end. These actions are ordered by the reader.
Example: “He lay down on the bed listlessly as soon as he entered the room. The
temperature was taken. “I had a fever.”
Activity: Work with the story “Little Red Riding Hood”.
TIME OF THE STORY TIME OF HISTORY
A hunter kills a wolf and frees a girl and her 1st Mother's Warning
grandmother who were in the animal's
stomach.
None of this would have happened if Little Red 2nd Meeting of Little Red Riding Hood with the
Riding Hood had heeded her mother's wolf in the forest
warnings.
At the grandmother's house, the disguised 3° The wolf devours the grandmother
wolf tricked the little girl and swallowed her;
before that, he had come to the house and
devoured the old woman.
Little Red Riding Hood remembered her 4th Meeting of the disguised wolf with Little
trusting interview with the wolf in the forest Red Riding Hood.
and now regretted having trusted the sinister
character.
The girl promised to be more careful in the 5° The wolf devours Little Red Riding Hood.
future.
6° The hunter kills the wolf and frees Little Red
Riding Hood and her grandmother.
